Thread: Food for thought

Starting back in the early 90s, the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in Chicago started collecting 0.5 Petabytes of data a year. Think about that for a second those of you who remember the average size and cost of hard drives back then.

Right now, the LHC is collecting 1.5 Petabytes per year.

Enterprise class storage is still expensive.
that 1.5PB of storage may require 5x that or more in an enterprise situation. Backups, COOP sites, redundancy, and tiered storage are the way of the enterprise. It is not quite as simple as buying a bunch of cheap 1TB drives and sticking them in a computer.